Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Support for QPNP PMIC's

[Courtney Cavin <courtney.cavin@sonymobile.com>]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:18:57PM +0200, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Courtney Cavin
> <courtney.cavin@sonymobile.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 01:07:13PM +0200, Stanimir Varbanov wrote:
> >> On 06/25/2014 01:36 AM, Courtney Cavin wrote:
> > Greg, Grant, Rob?  What's the law?
> 
> Generally sub-blocks of a device are handled as platform devices. If
> there is a good enough reason then creating a new device type may be
> okay, but we certainly wouldn't want every PMIC or MFD driver to go
> off and define their own bus. Probably not each vendor doing a bus
> either.

Thanks for the clarification!

> > On a related note, it would probably be a good idea to move much of the
> > platform resource stuff out of the platform code... so we don't
> > re-implement it over-and-over again.
> 
> Which part is implemented over-and-over?

These two, and all the convenient wrapper/population functions:
  struct resource *resource;
  u32 num_resources;

-Courtney